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Makarios III
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Person

Makarios III

1913 – 1977 · aged 64

Archbishop primate, primate & 1st President of Cyprus (1913–1977)

Born
13 Aug 1913 · Pano Panagia
Died
3 Aug 1977 · Nicosia
Part ofCyprus334 BCE – todayEastern Orthodoxy265 CE – today

Life timeline

Their life from birth to death. On the timeline, world events of the time are shown faintly.

Showing 74 years
  1. 13 Aug 1913BornBorn in Pano Panagia
  2. 1948 – 1956RoleBishop
  3. 1950 – 1977RoleArzobispo de Nova Justiniana y Todo Chipre
  4. 1955Took partAsian–African Conference
  5. 1960 – 1968RolePresident of Cyprus
  6. 1968 – 1973RolePresident of Cyprus
  7. 1973 – 1977RolePresident of Cyprus
  8. 3 Aug 1977DiedDied in Nicosia

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Meanwhile in the world

Major world events during their lifetime (1913 – 1977).

  1. 1914 – 1918World War I
  2. 1915 – 1923Armenian genocide
  3. 1917Balfour Declaration
  4. 1917February Revolution
  5. 1917October Revolution
  6. 1917 – 1922Russian Civil War
  7. 1919 – 1920Paris Peace Conference
  8. 1920Treaty of Versailles
  9. 1933 – 1945The Holocaust
  10. 19341934 FIFA World Cup
  11. 19361936 Summer Olympics
  12. 1937 – 1945Second Sino-Japanese War
  13. 19381938 FIFA World Cup
  14. 1938Munich Agreement
  15. 1939 – 1940Winter War
  16. 1939 – 1945World War II
  17. 1940 – 1945Auschwitz concentration camp
  18. 1941Attack on Pearl Harbor
  19. 1941 – 1945Eastern Front
  20. 1941Operation Barbarossa
  21. 1942 – 1943Battle of Stalingrad
  22. 1945Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
  23. 1945 – 1946Nuremberg trials
  24. 19501950 FIFA World Cup
  25. 1950 – 1953Korean War
  26. 1953 – 1959Cuban Revolution
  27. 19541954 FIFA World Cup
  28. 1955 – 1975Vietnam War
  29. 1956Hungarian Revolution of 1956
  30. 1956Suez Crisis
  31. 19581958 FIFA World Cup
  32. 1959Antarctic Treaty System
  33. 19621962 FIFA World Cup
  34. 1962Cuban Missile Crisis
  35. 19661966 FIFA World Cup
  36. 1966 – 1976Cultural Revolution
  37. 1968Prague Spring
  38. 1969Apollo 11 Moon landing
  39. 19721972 Summer Olympics
  40. 19741974 FIFA World Cup

Biography

Makarios III (born Michael Christodoulou Mouskos; 13 August 1913 – 3 August 1977) was a Greek Cypriot prelate and politician who served as Archbishop of the Church of Cyprus from 1950 to 1977 and as the first president of Cyprus between 1960 and July 1974, with a second term between December 1974 and 1977. He is widely regarded as the founding father or "Ethnarch" of the Republic of Cyprus, leading its transition from British colonial rule.

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